The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-04-09

istence. the supporters OF me AL
ministration have tried to strangle
this reform each year by riders upon
Appropriation bills. ! think it is fair
to say that for four days in every
week the President has manfully up.
held the law. For the rest of the
week he leaves it to his enemies.
Many disreputable appointments
have been made, probably on the Off
days. AS Republican. 1 am proud
that this reform was enacted into
law by a Republican Congress. in
augerated by Republican president.
Mr.. Cleveland has done we'll, but
Chester A. Arthur is still pre.emi-
nent as the civil service reform pres
ident. LAppIause.] Mr.. Cleveland
has not taken one step since Arthur's
regulations. But this reform has
come to stay. 1t will survive, in the
interests of the whole people. until
legislative influence shall be abso.
lutely divorced from executive pa
tronage. Applause. Nearly all the
officers who could be changed, have
been changed. Experienced men
have been turned out, whenever the
Civil Service law permitted or could
be evaded. The laws protecting the
Union soldiers in Office have been
ignored. Coming into Office with a
proclamation of economy, and pledg-
ed to reduce the salaries and decrease
the Offices, we find from every de.
partment and bureau cry for more
Offices and higher salaries. When a
dollar is harder to earn and will buy
more than at any time since the gov
eminent was founded, how surpris-
ing is this general demand for in
crease of salaries, fixed Incomes to he
paid out of the declining wages of
labor and chapening products of the
farm, and mill, and mine. There is
an extraordinary discrepancy between
the Democratic loud professions and
protestations of reform and retrench-
ment and the increase of appropri-
ations during the four years of my
service in Congress. For the last
two years of President Arthur's term
the regular annual appropriations
were for 1884 Sl95, 710. $500 and for
1885 S219, 595, 2S3. IS, but for the first
two years of President Cleveland's
term the regular annual appropria-
tions were for 1886 1854, 9l4,6i3 25,
and for 1887 $2i8. 1856. 69O.S5. respec.
lively. Were it not for the failure of
the deficiency and river and harbor
bills, fifteen millions more would
have been added to make this last to-.
tai exceed two hundred and sixty
three millions.
AT "a time when labor is crying out
for fewer hours and higher wages,
no party dare overwhelm our work.
ingmen with the products from
abroad, of labor at half wages and
twelve or fourteen hours a day, nor
take away the farmers home mar
ket, when throughout the world GER
eals bring the lowest prices known
doing the century.
The increase of Republican senti.
ment in the border states attests the
value of a tariff to a developing peo-
pie.
The Republican party liberated the
master when 1T freed the slave. APP
plause. 1t made labor more honor
able throughout the nation, while it
added immensely to the moral and
industrial forces of the new South,
opening a career of freedom and use.
fullness to six millions of people.
The present marvellous growth in the
South will convince her people that
tariff is her greatest aid to devel-
opement. In Missouri, North Car
DINA, Kentucky and Tennessee, the
Republican cause is fast advancing,
West Virginia is about to become a
Republican state. Old Virginia elec-
titled the country by splendid Re.
publican victory last fall. Maryland
still lags behind.
We impose duties on imported ar
ticles which compete with the pro-
ducts of our own labor and industry,
which, while securing necessary rev.
enue, will encourage home produc.
ton. create home markets. furnish
employment to American working.
men without increasing the burdens
of our people. We want duty on
foreign importation. the free trader
wants tax on home production.
Applause. When the war closed
nearly all importations were subject
to duty, but as the fruit of repeated
tariff reduction, during the last FIVE
years about one.third in value of our
importations were free of duty. But
the evident aim of the Morrison bills
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